Comment 8 for bug 61530

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:47:15PM -0000, Frank Schoep wrote:
> I think the maximal safe length is 0 seconds as we can't really be
> certain that the shutdown action will take at least a certain amount of
> time. This might even be the reason that Apple decided to not include a
> shutdown sound since OS X shuts down very fast as well. The best route
> to take might be to create a very short sound, like a single chord /
> interval and have it fade out quickly. I'll try to get something like
> that produced quickly.

Our shutdown process, while very fast, contains some steps which are of a
minimum, nonzero duration.

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 - mdz